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Environmentally friendly materials used in the buildings designed.
1. Saving water and energy.
Led lamps
- this technology surpasses conventional lighting, generating
savings up to 50 to 80%.
Taps with a presence sensor
used in bathrooms for public use, promoting
water-saving, comfort and hygiene.
Flush valve
for toilets with double flow that controls the flow promoting
more economy and stimulate environmental education.
2. Thermic and acoustic comfort.
Soil-cement bricks
- will be used in structural masonry walls. These are
compounds of soil, cement and water. This material is produced without the burning
process thereby avoiding the deforestation and consequently the air pollution.
Moreover, it eliminates breaking of walls and waste of materials (Fig. 20 and 21).
Figures 20 and 21: Bricks of soil - cement applied to the walls of the buildings of the Paulínia
Botanic Garden.
Glasses:
Will be used for sealing the buildings, windows and doors and
partitions which guarantees natural lighting and can be reused several times with the
same purpose.
Recycled cork plates:
Will be applied in the auditorium’s room as an
insulated-acoustic material 30% of it is obtained from the cork extracted from the cork
tree (
Quercus suber
) and 70% will be extracted from recycled corks.
Sheets of plaster Cleneo-acoustic liners:
To be used in the auditorium’s
room, this material turns harmful particles and odors into harmless substances.
Acoustic, it promotes sound absorption and contributes to the comfort of the
environment.
Ecological slabs
(Figs. 22 and 23): Will be used to cover the new buildings
of the Botanic Garden. They are manufactured by a Brazilian company and have a
rainwater capture system and use a drainage system with vegetation as shown on the
images below.
